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SEA-SIDE PLANTS. 



but it is very plentiful on the north and west of 

 Scotland. "This fine plant," says Dr. Walker, " was, 

 described in Scotland above a hundred years ago, by 



VERNAL SQUILL (Stilld 



the learned Sir Andrew Balfour, and afterwards by 

 Kay, as growing on the sea-shore near Berwick. It 

 was found in flower at Icolmkill, on the 2d of July, 



